I don't get Frozen

Frozen is the first Disney movie to use a female director. Co-director. The screenplay is written by a woman and the words to the songs are written by a woman. Not that there is anything wrong with men just that Frozen is very different from anything before it.
I love Frozen because the songs sound great to me. Christophe Beck has a long history of good and appropriate music but never has come close to this out of the park lightning in a bottle music score. The collaboration between beck and the Lopez's is very apparent to me. Very finely tuned nuances from great collaboration. I find the Do You Want to Build a Snowman part of the movie to be more endearing than anything I have seen. Other people have their own reasons to love the Frozen characters and story

It all comes down to personal taste and how a film resonates with you. Frozen really resonated with me and I adore it for many reasons. I found the characters to be likable, the songs to be catchy, the script to be well written, and the jokes to be funny; however, the thing I absolutely loved most about the film was the focus on the relationship between the sisters. Their bond and love for each other was very touching. This is probably the main reason why the film is so special to me (I have two younger sisters who I am very close with).

To be honest, many people I know love Despicable Me and Tangled; however, I did not care for either film. I did not find them to be special or funny. This is just my opinion though.

*All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.*🎭

A big part of the reason that many people like Frozen isn't just about Frozen itself, but Disney as a whole.

If you're under 30, or didn't pay a lot of attention to films when you were younger, it's easy to see Disney as being all about princesses and animated films, but that wasn't always the case. It used to be that the animated films were the big spectacles from Disney, the way blockbuster superhero films are today, but the company paid the bills with low-budget live action fluff.

Even among the animated films, most weren't about princesses. Between 1937 and 1988 there were 27 animated feature films, only three of which were princess films. And then the Little Mermaid happened in 1989 and it changed everything.

The decade between 1989 and 1999 is known as the Disney Renaissance. There were ten highly successful animated films, half of which are loosely considered to be Princess films, and most were very highly reviewed. Beauty and the Beast especially is considered by many to be the perfect execution of that type of film.

Starting around 2000, though, things started going slowly downhill. The highly creative films were coming out of Pixar, with Disney animation basically jogging in place. The animated films weren't as interesting, successful, or as well reviewed, direct to VHS/DVD films became a more viable market, and Disney as a whole just wasn't what they had been.

Frozen, in many ways, is a return to form. It is both a sweeping romantic adventure in the style of the early nineties films and a film which recognises that certain aspects of that film form (such as submissive female protagonists) are out of place in today's world. While maybe not as good as Beauty and the Beast, Frozen can easily stand with most films of that era.

So yes, certainly, there are a lot of young people who enjoyed Frozen on its own, and that's great. But the reason why so many adults got so excited about it is because it reminds them of the films which they loved twenty years ago. Frozen acts as a reminder that Disney can still make amazing animated films, when they try... and possibly the hope that there's going to be a second Renaissance.

~Lemmus.

I didn't see the feature film 'Frozen', but did sit through 'Frozen Fever' during a recent screening of Cinderella. I chalked up the simplistic story of a perfect magical birthday as something that would appeal to children. Like the OP, I was certainly surprised that the adults in the audience did cheer and laugh throughout.

As far as the Frozen feature film, several of my adult friends went to see it just for the music. They love the songs and the artists and are excited about the sequel coming out.

It's okay, man. I'm like that too sometimes with other popular movies.

For example, I didn't like The Matrix, like at all, I thought it was too simplistic and not well thought out at all (maybe because I'm used to watching very well thought out and much more complicated Japanese animated series, including Ghost In The Shell which inspired The Matrix itself!). But as you know, EVERYONE was crazy about The Matrix.

Same with Pulp Fiction and Punch-Drunk Love (I only watched the first 10 minutes of both movies). Everyone praises both movies like there's no tomorrow, but I never really understood all the praising.

With Frozen, I thought it was okay. Olaf was funny, Elsa was cute. The storyline was okay, but I don't think it was a mega "masterpiece" some people think it was.

But GET THIS: if you analyze the popularity of Frozen very closely, it has more to do with DISNEY rather than Frozen itself. So in short, I think if Frozen isn't made by Disney, it would be pretty successful, but maybe Ratatouille kind of successful, NOT the current Frozen kind of successful, you know what I mean?

So yeah, if everyone is crazy about something and you're not, just assume you just have different taste. You don't need to understand "why", it wastes your time. :)

I like the relation between Anna and Elsa (who was supposed to be the evil Ice Queen but was completely re-written - thankfully).



Ich bin kein ausgeklügelt Buch, ich bin ein Mensch mit seinem Widerspruch.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer